Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The first ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure. The authors - both Microsoft MVPs in Azure - present both conceptual and how-to content for key areas, including: Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services Azure Virtual Machines Azure Storage Azure Virtual Networks Databases Azure Active Directory Management tools Business scenarios Watch Microsoft Press’s blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series.

The author of The HTML Sourcebook shows both experienced and novice HTML users how to understand, create, modify and customise stylesheets. He also provides a detailed description of cascading styleshets, and the elements allowed for each.

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This how-to reference shows Java programmers and Webmasters how to add an electronic commerce application to their businesses' Web sites. The CD comes with all the electronic commerce Java applets from the book, plus CardShield, a fully functional point-and-click commercial product written in Java that enables users to set up a virtual store.

The latest technology from Microsoft that creates new possibilities for networking and the Internet. With Active Platform, Microsoft is moving to revolutionize Internet, Intranet and networking capabilities. A combination of ActiveX, Active Desktop, and Active Server, Active Platform will make all of Microsoft's products Internet accessible and allow them to be linked in a networking environment. This book shows developers and Webmasters everything they need to know to create applications on the Active Platform, taking them through each of the platform's three components in logical, skill-building fashion.